ENH4370

Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction

(ART)

M Ackland

12 points + 2 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis: This unit will examine issues in contemporary Australian writing and criticism. In studying the fiction, questions of identity - national, gender, racial - will be raised, and the ways in which postmodern fiction interrogates the very concept of identity and destabilises existing definitions through a range of stylistic strategies will be explored.

Assessment: Two essays (2500 words; 30% each): 60% + Essay (4000 words): 40%